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How one Christian legal group is shaping policy, from abortion to LGBTQ rights

1:32pm October 18, 2023

by Terry Gross

The Alliance Defending Freedom has won 15 Supreme Court cases, including overturning Roe v. Wade. New Yorker writer David Kirkpatrick explains the group's influence and their next targets.

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How U.S. synagogues have been thinking about their safety since the Hamas attacks

4:49pm October 17, 2023

by Jason DeRose

Synagogues in the U.S. have considerable security compared to many other houses of worship. The Hamas attacks have congregations refocused on the safety of worshipers.

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A name that pops up in October is Santa Muerte. Who is the death saint?

5:14am October 17, 2023

Believers in the figure known as "Saint Death" are paying homage, even as the Catholic church in Mexico rejects her.

Mourners gather for 6-year-old Palestinian American boy who was fatally stabbed

5:27pm October 16, 2023

by Anna Savchenko

A 6-year-old Palestinian American boy was fatally stabbed and his mother serious injured in a Chicago suburb over the weekend in what authorities are calling a hate-crime killing.

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A 6-year-old boy was killed in an anti-Muslim attack in Illinois, authorities say

11:04pm October 15, 2023

by Emma Bowman

Law enforcement said the 71-year-old suspect who fatally stabbed a young boy and seriously wounded a woman was motivated by the Israel-Hamas war. The suspect has been charged with a hate crime.

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Patrick Stewart says his time on 'Star Trek' felt like a ministry

5:28pm October 15, 2023

by Rachel Martin

Legendary actor Patrick Stewart talks about his time on Star Trek and supernatural experiences that have shaped his spirituality.

A rabbi and imam on how they're counseling their communities

4:43pm October 13, 2023

NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with Imam Mohamed Herbert in Kansas and Rabbi Sharon Brous in Los Angeles about how they're counseling their congregations during the conflict in Israel and Gaza.

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Japan seeks to revoke the Unification Church's legal status after Abe killing

11:45am October 13, 2023

by Anthony Kuhn

Japan's government has asked a court to remove the legal standing and tax breaks of the Unification Church, which was tied to the shocking assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe last year.

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Japan's government asks court to revoke legal status of Unification Church

4:14am October 13, 2023

by Anthony Kuhn

Members of the controversial group are sometimes known as the Moonies. The unusual move by the Japanese government was set in motion by the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in 2022.

Facing 'unbearable communal desperation', some Jewish communities turn to fasting

6:57pm October 12, 2023

The attacks in Israel have left so wrought much anguish in the Jewish communities across the globe. Some of those U.S. communities have turned to religious practice to express their grief: fasting.

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